Improvement in tickets



. M. SAVIN.

TICKETS.

Patented Dec. 21, 1875.

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. Inveizfol UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. SAVIN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

lIMPROVEMENT IN TICKETS.

Speeitcation forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,429, dated December21, 1875; application filed November 4, 1875. 1 l

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN MILES SAVIN, of the city and county ofBaltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Passengers Tickets for Railways and Analogous Uses, ofwhich the,

following is a specification Myinventon relates especially to that classof' tickets which are known as ticket-draw-` backs, and are issued bythe conductors to those who, paying on board the train, are charged inexcess of regular fares, and to whom a ticket is issued entitling them,on presentation of the ticket at prescribed places, to receive adrawback for the whole or part oi' such excess.

Duplex ticket-drawbacks have been in common use. These are printed induplicate, upon connected tickets, placed in such relation to oneanother thatin punching any name or number on one the corresponding nameor number on the other will be punched. When a passenger pays his farethe conductor punches theduplex ticket, and, retaining one section,gives the other to the passenger, who, on presenting it, as prescribed,is paid his drawback, and the agent takes up his ticket, and forwards itwith his account as a voucher. Railway companies who retain thesetickets, after settlement ot' the agents account, iind that they areliable to be stolen and repaid by other agents. It has, therefore, beenforced on some companies to destroy the tickets on settlement, afterwhich the agents are left without vouchers, and the company without themeans ot' reviewing a settlement. Besides this, these tickets have beenretained by passen gers, and used indefinitely for traveling betweenstations intermediate to Vthose punched on said tickets.

My'invention intended to provide against these objections,-` and aiord amore perfect protection to all parties concerned. To this end myinvention consists in the use of triplex ticketdrawbacks, printed on onecard or sheet, so reversed that the three corresponding names or numberswill be punched at one operation.

In the annexed drawing, making a part of this specication, Figure l is atriplex ticketdrawback. Fig. 2 is the part of the ticket given to thepassenger. Fig. 3 is the agents coupon or clerks check. Fig. 4 is theconductors coupon.

The several coupons are printed in reverse alternately, and areotherwise identical, except thc Notice, which gives the properdirections to the conductor, the passenger, and the agent, whichdii'er,so that one can never be `used for the other. The three may bebound in a book, the conductors coupon being r attached to the stub.When a passenger pays his fare the conductor punches the two stationsbetween which the fare is paid; also, the date and the train number, thelatter always designating the direction the train is moving, as eachtrainhas a number each way, by which it is always known. He alsodesignates the amount of drawback by punching all but the onedesignating the amount of drawback to be refunded, which is -secured tothe passenger by the conductor tearing ofi' and handing him the twocoupons shown in Fig. 2, retainingthe other to enable him to make up hiswaybill. The two coupons are worthless if sevf ered. When the agentredeems them they,

are in like .manner forwarded with his account asa voucher, and when-his account is exame ined the drawback-coupon is to be torn oil'V anddestroyed,'and the clerks check may be filed away to be used in settlingwith the conductor when he accounts for his book, and` preserved as avoucher, as in that form, sepa, rated from the drawback-coupon, it isworthless.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isA triplex ticket-drawback, consisting of a conductors and a drawbackcoupon, and a clerks check, so printed in reverse that when folded thesame names and numbers on the three coupons may be simultaneouslypunched, and when redeemed and accounted for the drawback-coupon may bedestroyed, and the others retained as vouchers, substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. M. SAVIN. Witnesses:

G. E. SANesToN, JN0. T. MoGLoUE.

